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In the past, United Nations human rights investigators have said inmates in camps have suffered starvation, torture and other atrocities.

North Korea could be separating isotopes used to manufacture sophisticated and more powerful nuclear bombs, United States experts warned Wednesday, after Pyongyang announced its main atomic weapons complex was fully operational. Furthermore, later that year, the country...

In its state media, North Korea stated on Tuesday that the plutonium and uranium facilities at its main nuclear complex have been “rearranged, changed or readjusted”, according to ABC News.

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said the reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear facility had been restarted two years ago-along with uranium enrichment.

On 15 September it released a statement by the director of its Atomic Energy Institute insisting that all of its Yongbyon facilities had “started normal operations”.

Following all-night talks between the Red Cross branches of North and South Korea, both countries agreed on Tuesday to hold a reunion for families separated by the Korean War.

North Korea demanded Monday that United States troops be pulled out from South Korea, saying USA military presence in the South is a pretext for “ceaseless north-targeted saber-rattling”.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s certification scores surged following the deal, that most South Korean mass media retailers held up for being come out on top for her emotional positioning resistant to the North.

North Korea has followed the South in resuming loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across their heavily militarised border, Seoul’s defence ministry said on Monday.

A deal has been signed between North and South Korea to reduce tension on border, media reported on Tuesday.

The marathon negotiations have pushed aside warnings of imminent war on the Korean peninsula, but South Korea said its neighbour continues to prepare for conflict and has doubled the strength of its frontline artillery forces.

The negotiations were aimed at ending a risky military stand-off which triggered a rare artillery exchange over the border last week, after which North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his frontline troops onto a war-footing.

“It is very merciful to grab an opportunity for developing inter-Korean relations and preventing the recurrence of provocative acts through this round of high-level inter- governmental contact between the two Koreas”, Kim Kwan-jin, South Korean President Park...

The joint accord, signed by the two countries on Tuesday, includes a guarantee from Seoul to turn off loudspeakers blasting high-decibel propaganda across the North Korean border, in light of Pyongyang having “expressed regret” at the maiming of two South Korean...